Very much interested with the Apache Karaf concept and its kind of useful contribution to the OSGi framework world. In future I can feel that lot of standalone/web/mobile apps will use this Karaf in great extend.

To explore the Karaf functionality and to provide a Graphical interface , tried create eclipse plugin to access Karaf shell from the eclipse view.

Two views are currently created,

- Karaf Admin View
- Karaf Console View

Karaf Admin View:
Access the Karaf shell remotely and provides action for basic OSGi bundle maintenance like list/start/stop/install/uninstall/refresh.



View connects to the Karaf console and gets the bundle list




View allows to stop the bundles.




Karaf Console:

Extended Eclipse console to get Karaf running inside the eclipse.




- Currently implementing the Bundle Repository preference

- Plan is to provide the OSGi flow designer editor with all bundles.

If you are interested in participating this code development, you can reach me rathishraj@gmail.com

Checkout code base in http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/osgi-flow-designer/